With all the traffic on the roads these days, it takes everyone to make them safer. Governments have to build infrastructure that focuses on road safety. Motorists need to drive more responsibly and limit distractions. And automobile manufacturers must implement available technology to make vehicles themselves safer. Boland Romaine Personal Injury Lawyers present the types of safety technology that will soon be standard in every car.
Blind Spot Detection
No matter what type of vehicle you drive, there are blind spots that don’t allow you to see when another vehicle is approaching you from the side and rear. These blind spots have long caused car accidents when the vehicle that is slightly in front either pulls out or changes lanes in front of the one that’s in the blind spot. Students are taught to always check their blind spot before making such maneuvers, but with the lack of driver’s education programs and the tendency to get complacent, more precautions needed to be implemented.
Blind spot detection technology gives a driver an in-cab alert when another vehicle is in their blind spot. Sometimes, this alert is on their dashboard and other times it’s on their side mirrors. In some cases, the alert is also audible as well as visual. This allows the driver to avoid changing lanes or pulling out when another car is too close to them, thereby preventing these rather common collisions.
Automatic Braking Systems
There is always a reaction time when a driver needs to hit the brakes to avoid a collision, and that reaction time can be the difference between hitting an object and stopping before it. New automatic braking systems such as the Crash Imminent Breaking (CIB) system gives control of the brakes to the car when a crash or other hazard is detected. It removes the human factor from the equation, allowing the car to stop itself.
The Dynamic Braking (DB) system, another type of automatic braking system, automatically slows a vehicle down when a hazard is detected. It won’t completely stop the vehicle, as the CIB will do, but it does allow more stopping distance between the car and the hazard by reducing its speed. The driver can then make an evasive move to avoid the hazard or stop the car themselves.
Lane Departure Warning System
Many drivers have the tendency to allow their mind to wander when driving and this can lead to drifting into another lane. The lane departure warning system of newer cars will sound an alert when the vehicle is leaving its lane without the turn signal on. It is designed to bring the driver back to full attention and move the car back where it belongs. It sounds the alert immediately when the car departs the lane so that corrective action can be taken before the car goes off the road entirely or hits another object.
Conclusion
Most new vehicles have these safety features on them, but if yours doesn’t, consider getting the technology added to increase your safety while driving. It might be a little expensive to add aftermarket technology to your car, but your safety, and that of your passengers is worth it.
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